A Quote by Cesare Beccaria

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

Cesare Beccaria

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Cesare Beccaria
Italian - Judge
March 15, 1738 - November 28, 1794

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Michelle Alexander

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

David Lynch

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Stephen Hawking

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

Jasper Johns

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.

Paul King Jewett

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

Kirkpatrick Sale

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John Wilbanks

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Baltasar Gracian

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Barbara Taylor Bradford

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Thomas Traherne

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

William Schutz

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

Lord Kelvin

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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